This is an analysis of the poem To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering that begins with:
Madam,
Long have I look'd my tablets o'er, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbccddaaeeeeaabbffggdeecceeaaddaXaahhiiddccbbjjaacceeaaddkXkkhheeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 111111010 11110111 11010101 11110101 11111111 11111101 110011001 01011111 110010111 110101001 11010101 01010101 11111110 01010101 010100101 01010111 1100101001 110100101 11110101 01110001 111100011 1100010101 11010101 111101001 11111101 11010101 111100111 11011101 01110101 11110101 01001101 10101101 01110101 11011011 110010110 11110011 11000111 01110101 01110111 01110101 11110101 011001111 10011101 01010101 11011111 111111001 01010001 01111101 01011101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11011111 11010101 01111101 11001001 01110101 110111001 01010101 01010111 110100100 11011101 01011101 11011101 1101001001 11011001 01011101 11101101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2445
- Average number of words per stanza: 441
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, all, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, be, and are repeated.
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